On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 01:04:10PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > REJECTED ALTERNATIVE - ADDING THE KEY TO THE DD KEYRING
> >
> > One approach that would let tag2upload function correctly, would be
> > adding the tag2upload service key to debian-keyring.gpg, as if it were
> > a human uploading DD.
> 
> How about adding the tag2upload keys to a NEW keyring instead?
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/
> 
> I think tag2upload is a different enough mechanism that it could warrant
> an entire new class of keyring.  By including it in the official debian
> keyring package, we get some historic accountability of which keys were
> used.  You also get a way to phase in new keys and phase out old keys.
> 
> I suggest not putting it in the "debian-role-keys" but instead a new
> "debian-tag2upload-keys" keyring.  It seems like a sensible
> implementation approach to accept any key in that keyring as being a
> "tag2upload" key, rather than hard-coding particular key fingerprints in
> various configuration files or scripts.
> 
> /Simon

I believe that this is the right approach, fwiw. We need to be able to
say which keys can upload to the Debian archive, and the debian-keyring
is where that knowledge should live.

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